diff --git a/karaf/gshell/gshell-features/src/main/java/org/apache/felix/karaf/gshell/features/internal/RepositoryImpl.java b/karaf/gshell/gshell-features/src/main/java/org/apache/felix/karaf/gshell/features/internal/RepositoryImpl.java
index 515425d..ffd6ce2 100644
--- a/karaf/gshell/gshell-features/src/main/java/org/apache/felix/karaf/gshell/features/internal/RepositoryImpl.java
+++ b/karaf/gshell/gshell-features/src/main/java/org/apache/felix/karaf/gshell/features/internal/RepositoryImpl.java
@@ -20,6 +20,7 @@
 import java.io.IOException;
 import java.net.URI;
 import java.net.URISyntaxException;
+import java.net.URLConnection;
 import java.util.ArrayList;
 import java.util.Enumeration;
 import java.util.Hashtable;
@@ -77,7 +78,10 @@
             repositories = new ArrayList<URI>();
             features = new ArrayList<Feature>();
             DocumentBuilderFactory factory = DocumentBuilderFactory.newInstance();
-            Document doc = factory.newDocumentBuilder().parse(uri.toURL().openStream());
+            URLConnection conn = uri.toURL().openConnection();
+            conn.setDefaultUseCaches(false);
+            Document doc = factory.newDocumentBuilder().parse(conn.getInputStream());
+            
             NodeList nodes = doc.getDocumentElement().getChildNodes();
             for (int i = 0; i < nodes.getLength(); i++) {
                 Node node = nodes.item(i);